Ta Daaa

| March 1, 2010

It seemed like a bit of a sprint to the finish line, but last night everything came together, literally and metaphorically, and I was able to complete the Black Prince in a flurry of knot-tying, rope-coiling, and loose-end-trimming. [Click to embiggen] [Click to embiggen] Disaster was averted on several occasions, and I’m sure the longer […]

The end is in sight.

| February 23, 2010

This being my first effort at shipwrightry, I think I’ve been wasting quite a bit of raw material. More rigging line ends up being trimmed off than on the model. As a result, I sort of ran out of one particular type…. You can see in the pictures that there are two colors of rigging, […]